<p>I had multiple common app essays to send to different schools - I'd submit once, copy the application, change the essay, submit again, and so on. For one of these essays, I forgot to print preview until after I submitted, and when I looked at it again, I realized that it had a couple of line breaks in odd places (like in the middle of a sentence). This only happens a few times, and most of the essay reads as intended. Would this have a significant impact on the evaluation of the essay?</p>
<p>I had the worst time fighting with those stupid line breaks. I'm hoping that schools will understand that the spacing just randomly came out bizarre a lot.</p>
<p>All right, I thought as much. It's regrettable, but I doubt it'll keep me out, or anything.</p>
<p>"why did you have different essays for different common app colleges?"</p>
<p>For some schools, the essay I most often used was very similar to things I wrote for their supplemental prompts. I wanted to show something different about myself with each piece of writing, hence the need for different essays.</p>
<p>Glad you figured out to submit separately, xyz! I think the colleges are probably used to a varying degree of technical sophistication with the essays, so I wouldn't worry about it. For others of you who might be reading this, you can click on essay help that tells you how to copy and paste your essay so the lines work. Essentially, save it in your word processing program as a .txt file. That gets rid of all your WP's own spacing, and uses "generic."</p>
<p>Even when D did this, though, we had a couple double spaces sneak in, so print preview is still important.</p>